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Universiti Teknologi MARA
2016
PREFACE
thinking and collaborative skills. As these Web 2.0 tools revolutionize the way how
teaching and learning takes place in many classrooms, the lists of the convenient,
clever and interactive educational tools are fast growing to liberate the process of
teaching and learning from the four walls. Technology allows such process to be
ubiquitous and seamless. However, it may be hard for an educator who is a novice in
technology to be able to identify and draw on the tools for effective learning. This book
is written with the intention of guiding the educators in exploring the Web 2.0 tools
that can be used in their teaching and learning.
This is the fifth book of its series- Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the classroom, which
featured various Web 2.0 tools that can be used to maximized students learning. As
an extension to the earlier parts of this series, this book too dedicates its every chapter
to one particular Web 2.0 tool. It subsequently goes on to describe the benefits of
using the tool in educational settings, which is then followed by the step-by-step
guidance in using the tool. Readers will also appreciate the inclusion of screenshots to
ease their navigation in making the most out of the online resources. Eleven tools are
described in this part of the Web 2.0 tools series, namely Twiducate, LittleBirdsTale,
Thoughts.co, Dweeber, Sketchlot, CoSketch, Glogster, Scribblar, CollaborizeClassroom,
SchoolRack and Edublogs.
It is hoped that this book will provide a resource to advocate for the best possible ways
to learn from the open world.
Best Regards
Johan Eddy Luaran
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER 1: TWIDUCATE
CHAPTER 2: LITTLE BIRD TALES
CHAPTER 3: THOUGHTS.COM
CHAPTER 4: DWEEBER
CHAPTER 5: SKETCHLOT
CHAPTER 6: COSKETCH
CHAPTER 7: GLOGSTER
CHAPTER 8: SCRIBBLAR
CHAPTER 9: COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM
CHAPTER 10: SCHOOLRACK
CHAPTER 11: EDUBLOGS
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TWIDUCATE
INTRODUCTION TO TWIDUCATE
Twiducate.com is a free resource medium for educators run by Ray Blakney. Developed in
2009, their goal is to create a medium for teachers and students to continue their learning
outside the classroom. They attempt to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue
for teachers, schools, and home learners in a social networking environment.
They understand that many social networking sites exist, however the control of content is
limited for teachers. Also, many of these social networking sites are continuously being blocked
by school firewalls and administrators. Many students are already using social networking sites
nowadays. Twiducate gives them an opportunity to develop their learning in this type of
environment but with control over visibility and content. Twiducate is different than other social
networking sites since only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a
private network for teachers and their students and a safer online learning environment.
Twiducate makes online learning easier for students because rather than having the students
sign up and enter their email address, the teacher can sign up and create a class code for the
class. Students will be able to log in to the class network using the code. There, they can
answer questions, collaborate on problems, and even embed pictures and videos. The teacher
will have full control over the network.
GETTING STARTED
Since this is a website which is controlled by teachers, only teachers can sign up for a
class and provides students with the code to log in.
1. Go to http://www.twiducate.com/. This would be the homepage.
2. Sign Up. To create a classroom page, the teacher must first sign up.
3. Fill up the required fields. Once you have clicked sign up, fill up the details required. At this
page, you must also fill in the details for your classroom such as the name and the code. Tips:
Use simple and memorable name and code for your classroom to ease the access for students
later on. Avoid using general classroom name as to prevent the possibilities of having the same
name as other classrooms.
3. Here, fill in the box with the name of one of your student and then click add.
3. Once you have added the students, you will be able to manage and monitor the students
activities on this page also.
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As Students
1. For students to share their thoughts, the steps are similar as the teacher.
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Note the difference between students and teachers. The teacher in charge has the power
to delete and pin posts on the class timeline whereas the students can only edit their
own post as well as like posts on the class timeline.
Extra features for teachers regarding the posts and comments in Twiducate: Teachers
can save the posts and comments in documents as a record as well as print it later and
they can also clear the timeline in the class.
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The important date section allows teachers to post various pieces of information for your
students. You can use this feature to post exam dates, coursework deadlines,
assessment sheet and etc.
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2. You will be directed to this page. Fill in the blanks and clicks add date.
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The class bookmark section of Twiducate allows you as the teacher to post pieces of
information that your students can assess in lessons or at home. Suggestions on using
this feature: Bookmark resources, presentations, bookmark images, websites etc.
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NOTE: Students can only view, open and print important dates and bookmarks. They cannot
add or edit the dates and bookmarks in the class.
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You can add other teachers to your class. By doing this, the other teacher will also have
full control of the class. You can use this features in case you needed someone else to
help you in controlling the class.
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2. Once you have successfully added the teacher in your class, their names will appear below
and you can manage the teacher there also.
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3. No disruption
The website has a feature to circumvent the advertisements pop-ups. It is also free from
merchandising as well as external links which could come as a promising feature to ensure that
the online learning process to be free from unnecessary distraction.
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13. a) Preview your tale if you are satisfied with your tale
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3. Enter the required information (e-mails, subject, message) and click share when you are
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2. Click PDF
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3. Enter your password and click Delete My Account to complete the process
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6. Add the title, authors name, your cover art and any audio if desired
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2. Choose one of either two ways of importing your students. You could use (.CSV files) or
(.XLS files)
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3. After you are done, you could see the details of the student here.
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THOUGHTS.COM
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INTRODUCTION TO THOUGHTS
Thoughts.com is a free blog where you can share your thoughts and meet similar or like-minded
people. You can write on any kinds of topics and thoughts.com will always provide you with the
audience who will read your posts. Similar as blogging, you can put up pictures and videos at
ease in your blog. Thougths.com allows you to meet new friends who share the same interest
as you as well as having or joining group discussions on the topics that you are interested in
with strangers. You can also have private conversations with other bloggers on thoughts.com.
This will ensure your privacy on the web. Besides that, users can have live chating with their
friends and the community members of thoughts.com so that they will always be in touch with
one another other than through their posts. You can personalize your thoughts easily to your
style and taste and your privacy in thoughts is ensured to be secured. The best part of all is that
it is free. You are free to posts your thoughts, videos and pictures and share it with others and
discover other interesting and exciting posts through your topics of interest.
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c. Privacy
If you feel more comfortable blogging only to a certain audience, you can set
your blog private and share your posts only with your friends. You have the full
autonomy to control the magnitude of your interaction with other people on
Thoughts.com. Your level of privacy is within your hold.
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How to sign up
1. Go to http://thoughts.com/public/tour
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You can also posts other types of posts instead of plain text on your blogpage such as posting
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2. Here you can see your records for your blog. You can also do various things here such as
invite members to join your blog, create your post, change picture and themes. Back to
customizing your blog.
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Besides that, you also can customize your blog theme by clicking on the theme settings.
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3. Under the blogs tab, you can explore more about other peoples thoughts/posts or blogs.
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DWEEBER
INTRODUCTION TO DWEEBER
Dweeber enables teachers to create an online study group to take academic discussion to the
next level. It enables students ranging from 13-17 to accomplish their homework with their
friends. Not only it is more fun, it also increases the chances for the homework to be finished. It
aims to enhance the potential of students to help each other academically within the online
community. The creation of Dweeber takes the consideration of having the young people as
the target audience hence it is packaged with an edge of ultra-cool look equipped with safety
features. In other words, it is the Facebook version with the sole purpose being to get the
homework done.
Introduced to public in 2009, Dweeber joins the course of the growing phenomenon of social
networking to create an online avenue for the teenagers have a conducive online environment
to help them learn and study with the help of their peers. It operates on the objective to
empower the young people which will then help them create a habit of helping and sharing with
their peers. They operate on these guiding principles;
Everyone has an inner Dweeb, a geek part of us that is passionate about something
important
Dweebers unique S.M.A.R.T. profile (stands for Success, Mind Patterns, Attractions and
Interests, Resources, and Thinking Talents) can help the users to know how they and their
peers learn best. It makes your learning experienced to be more personalized to attend to your
academic needs.
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Youth Advisory Board is a help system in which the members will be able to direct their
questions to the peers should they have any further questions in regards of the sites
procedures. This also enables the shy students to be able to reach out and have an interactive
communication to ask questions about homework or assignments among their peers without
having them risking themselves to the scary task of forwarding a question in front of everyone in
the class. This can help build the students confidence in participating the educational
discussions. Knowing that they are able to voice out their opinions without having to risk an
immediate demotivating face to face response can help them feel secure to participate. Up to
eight people can engage in a real-time study session using the collaborative whiteboard at one
time.
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One of the concerns when it comes to having forums online is the probability of foul language
that can make its way to the chat rooms. At Dweeber, teachers and parents need not to worry
about it as it is equipped with foul language blockers. Any offensive remarks will be blocked
leaving the chat room to remain intact. With this feature, students will also be able to practice
appropriate chat room etiquette.
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Privacy
Another amazing feature to avoid cyber bullying on the site is the privacy in which only the
friends that have been personally approved by the students will be able to have an access to
contact them. The students will be able to monitor their network online and avoid any possible
cyber bullying messages.
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2. Sign up for an account by filling up your details on the box on the left side of the page.
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Once you have successfully signed up, you will be then be taken to this page, which is
Your profile
HOME
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Action Icons
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Your profile page will appear. Here, your full profile is displayed and you are free to edit
your profile as much as you want just by clicking the related boxes.
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Once you have clicked the change option, 3 more action icons will appear which are :
Browse, Upload and Cancel.
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Click the START STUDY SESSION button at the bottom of the page.
Click here!
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2. Once you have clicked the button, a small box will appear. Fill in the details needed.
3. Study session requires the interaction with another student. So the next step is to select
friends that you want to invite to your session. The Invite Friends box will appear. Choose your
friends that you want to invite and then click Finish once you are ready to begin your session.
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4. Once you have clicked the finish button, you will then be taken to the next page which is
known as the discussion page. Here you can chat and discuss with your friends about your
topics. You can also use the whiteboard to help in your discussion.
Discussion
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Click here to
view all dweebs
3. Once you have clicked View All Dweebs, a list of Dweebers will be shown.
List of
Dweebers
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5. If you succeed, this notification will appear. Once the user has approved your invitation
request, they will appear in your friends list.
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2. This page will appear where all your friends on Dweeber will be shown.
Your dweebs
friend
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Once you have added your success, it will be shown below in your SMART profile.
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Click here to
understand how
this section work
The instructions are as follows. Answer the set of questions and the results of your Mind Pattern
will be shown later on.
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Begin adding your attraction and interest by clicking the plus (+) sign on the circle.
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For example, if you clicked on the Creative Things category, a list of activities will appear. Click
on your interest there.
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You can either click RETAKE to edit your interests or CONTINUE to move on to the other
acronyms.
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A. Resourceful Website. Here you can add or vote on websites that you find most useful.
To Add Website that you find useful
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Once you have added your website, the website will appear here. You can edit or delete the
website or just add another website by clicking the ADD icon.
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You will be taken to this page. Here you can view other resourceful websites and vote whether
you like or dislike the websites.
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This small box will appear where you need to select the best features for this website by clicking
on the pictures. Once you have finish, click Done.
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Once you have completed the Resource section, you can click CONTINUE or the acronym T
to move on to the next section.
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GURU points
1. Notice that some actions that you completed on Dweeber, will awards you with GURU points.
With Guru points, you will be able to get discounts on products from Dweebers sponsors,
purchase books and school products, and other item such as sports equipment, video games,
etc on Dweebers.
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SKETCHLOT
INTRODUCTION TO SKETCHLOT
Sketchlot is basically a web whiteboard for schools where it enables the teachers to incorporate
the elements of creativity in the classroom setting. Teachers will be able to create a sketch on a
virtual whiteboard, share it and have recipients mark it up and share it back. It is also a simple
teaching tool that doesnt require plug in, installation or app. It can work well on any browser
and from any type of device be it computers, smart phones and tablets.
Sketchlot Whiteboard is the best way to showcase the students understanding especially when
it comes to a concept that can appear foreign to most students such as mathematics concepts
and science diagrams. The students are not required to sign up but the teachers will be able to
add them into their respective accounts.
Featured as a form of enhancement tool in the classroom, it can be used for schools as
replacement for traditional chalk and board. The site is immensely helpful in terms of guidance
and support should the teachers and the students require it.
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Facilitative Features
Sketchlot Whiteboard could be an avenue for teachers to introduce the element of digital
learning online. Teachers will be able to log in to the system, create sketches, share and
receive assignments from students. The unique features will equip teachers to have the
necessary tools in creating challenging questions for the students even if the teachers are not
computer savvy.
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Interactive
Teachers will be able to communicate with students via texts to view and reply from a mobile
device without an email address. This will make educational assistance much more accessible
should the students require any guidance at the site outside classroom. The teachers will be
able to be at help as they can even text students to view and reply from a mobile device to the
interactive whiteboard without an e-mail address. Wisdom, is literally at the tip of your finger!
Apart from that, Sketchlot could help the teachers to transform complex topics in a more
discernable form. For example, visuals such as graphs, pictures and diagrams. This would
come in very handy in the process of teaching and learning and on the bright side, the students
will also be more interested to learn.
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GETTING STARTED
How to sign up
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Go to http://www.sketchlot.com/
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The teachers need to create a new account. Only the teachers can add students to their
account
3. Here, fill in the box with the name of one of your student and then click add.
4. Once you have added the students, you will be able to manage and monitor the
students activities on this page also.
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Students Login
Once the teacher has created the account, what the students needed in order to login
to the account are the class code and the password. Note that every student will have
their very own password and only the teacher in charge can give the password to the
students.
1. For students login, go to http://www.sketchlot.com/ and click log in on the left side of the
page.
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Choose to log in
as a student and
click Go
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5. You are log in! Here is the example of student home page.
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2. Start to make your first sketch. Here is the example of the sketch by using sketchlot.
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Click Save Sketch after you are done with your sketch.
4. After you have saved your sketches, you need to go to Home to see your sketches.
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6. After you have save your sketches, you can share it with others in the class.
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8. After you have share your sketches, your teacher will be able to see them by using their
account.
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Choose to login
as a teacher
3. Fill in the details needed and then click GO> to continue with the next step.
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2. New form will appear. You can see the list of your message. Click New Message to
write a message.
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4. Once you have successfully sent your message, the message will appear in the inbox.
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2. After you have logout the account, the home page will appear. You need to login again
to use the website.
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CoSketch
INTRODUCTION TO COSKETCH
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize
and share your ideas as images. It functions as whiteboard where user can express their idea,
problem or even share a pictures with friends. For example, users can upload an image from
their computer to Cosketch and then edit it to make it look more attractive and cool.
Another thing is compare to other sharing website that available online, CoSketch.com do not
ask users to create an account or register before they can use it. It is free to all and anyone can
use it as long as they have the idea to share. User can create as many sketches as they like
and they can save it online, share it and they can even edit it if they want to do so.
In addition of that, CoSketch can be browse at various browsers and users do not need to install
anything to get it started. Besides that, CoSketch provide image to be used for sketching. There
are various images available and users just need to drag it to the whiteboard in order to use it.
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1. Go to www.cosketch.com
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3. You will then be directed to a new page. This is called a room. Every time you access
cosketch, you will be provided with a room/whiteboard where you can create your own sketch
and then share the room with other users that are online. Unsaved sketches will be deleted 10
mins after the user has left the room.
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2. To create a random drawing, click the pen button and you can start sketching on the
whiteboard by moving your cursor.
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4. To create an arrow, just click the arrow symbol and click on the whiteboard.
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6. To create a rectangle, click the rectangle button and draw on the whiteboard.
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Example of text
8. To move the text, click the Move button and you can locate the text at any position.
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10. Under the tools box, there are various clear options provided. User can chose what they
wanted to clear on their whiteboard either text, ink, stamps, background or just clear all if you
want to redo the sketches all over again.
Clear tabs
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12. The snap-line option is still an experimental tool. Hence, there is no exact demo for it.
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2. To use images from cosketch, just click Browse library and the window will appear like this.
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2. Click choose file button to upload image from the computer and double click on the image
that you want to use. The image then will appear under the upload image box. The window will
appear like this.
1. Click
choose file
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window will
appear
3. Double click
on the chosen
image
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4. To share the completed sketches in other social media, just simply chose between the option
provided below. E.g : Facebook and Twitter
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GLOGSTER
INTRODUCTION TO GLOGSTER
Blending blogging, social networking and digital creation into a mould, Blogger proudly establish
itself based on the concept of exploiting the maximum engagement to provide a revolutionary
learning experience for the students.
The site provides facilitative tools to allow the users create online multimedia posters to
incorporate media such as images, text, videos, links and many more. The EDU community at
Glogster allows a safe environment for the students to have academic online learning session. It
is shielded by unapproved third party or outsiders that may bring negative influence such as foul
language into the chat rooms. At EDU ares, teachers will be able to monitor the progress their
students work. Students can collaborate and interact with one another within the protected
gated community.
The features offered at the site enables the users to create variety of educational products such
as visual essays, digital logs, online literary magazines, personal reflection of students which
they can personalize with their own pictures, research project presentations, online
documentaries and a lot more! At Glogster, you will have limitless avenue to provoke creativity
in learning.
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Engagement
Glogster allows interaction among students as they are able to help one another to complete
tasks. The teacher as well as the students can use the templates to create collaged Web pages
in which the graphics are pleasing. They will also have multiple templates which can provoke
their creativity. In its essence, Glogster takes learning to another level as they motivate students
to rearrange their understanding into another creative material.
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Learning Approach
With the features available, the teacher will have the autonomy to choose the pictures, videos
and text in accordance to their students educational needs. The students will have access to
share their pages at the galleries which can be supervised by the teacher.
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Support
The support centre at Glosgster is immensely helpful. There is a substantial FAQ page that will
be address to the users concerns should they encounter problems while surfing the net. Not
only that, each Glog has the appearance which is reflective of the users academic and creative
selections.
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Choose the template to your liking. You may opt for the one that best reflects the theme
of your subject matter.
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You may edit your glog using the fully equipped toolbar.
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If you happen to not have any glog to serve as a template, you can always create a new
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Click save and a box will appear asking you to fill in the details.
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9. Go back to the project space and click the template you have just created for the project.
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If you wish to send a message alongside with the assignment of the project, you may do
so here. You can even choose the recipients of the message either it is for everyone or only the
newly added students. Click save project once you are done.
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SCRIBBLAR
INTRODUCTION TO SCRIBBLAR
Scribblar is an innovative website of online tutoring platform that permits either public or private
usage of the whiteboards to be utilized by the users to demonstrate or teach. Scribblar is a wellknown application in the educational sphere across the globe for it has many facilitative features
to offer in enhancing the learning experience in and out of classroom.
The site also offers various features such as chat, live audio, whiteboard, image sharing as well
as document sharing with other users. This could come immensely helpful especially when we
talk about utilizing alternatives to further facilitate the teaching process in making sure that the
subject matter is well delivered. With the aid of these features, teaching and learning will be
much more productive.
The teachers can use Scribblar for online training and tutoring as well as to revise artwork and
images. It also provides an avenue for creative brainstorming. The users can run unlimited
session to further maximize the educational opportunities.
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GETTING STARTED
How to sign up
1. Go to https://scribblar.com/.
2. For the new user, you need to create a new account. Click at the label located at right
top of the page.
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3. You can choose either to use a free plan or upgrade to a higher plan. For the upgraded
plan, you can have more advantages compared to free plan.
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Fill in the
blank space
5. After successful create a new account, an activation link will be sent to your email.
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7. After successfully activate the account, you will be taken to next page. Here, you need to
login to your account.
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9. After login into the account, you can see the home page of the Scribblar.
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7. You also can have a conversation with your friend at the bottom left of the page.
Chat
Window
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When one person writes at the whiteboard, the other person will also be able to see the
same thing. You can look at the first picture and second picture attach below. Both of them can
see the same writing.
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Click
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3. Once the picture has been uploaded, the picture will automatically appear at your
scribblars whiteboard.
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3. If the audio setting does not work or develops technical difficulties, you may ask for the
tutor to call you and communicate over the phone while still using the whiteboard and
chat as needed.
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COLLABORIZE CLASSROOM
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Fill in your
personal detail
Enter your
password for your
account
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Click here to
logout from the
website
Home Page
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Send message
to members
Invite new
members to join
Contain basic
information about
the classroom site
Create a group
with friends
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If you are new to the site, you can invite your friend to join you in the site.
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Participation report
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Edit to
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If you want to vote the topic, click at vote and at the bottom of the topic.
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5. At the bottom of the post, you can write your comment. And do not forget to click Post to
publish your comment
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SCHOOLRACK
INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOLRACK
Ever since its establishment, SchoolRack has continued to be of service for over three million
stuednts and parents around the world. Recognizing the potential of internet to be of aid in the
pursuit of educational goals, Schoolrack has developed easy-to-use online tools to aid the
students enhance their learning experience.
It can also decrease the communication gap between the teachers, students and parents in
which all the parties will be able to keep in track with their childrens progress in school. It will
also keep the students on their toes without being intrusive at the same time as the online
platform enables them to share educational aspirations from the comfort of their couch. The
materials shared can come in many forms including videos, documents and pdfs, all are easily
available for the students future reference.
SchoolRack made the prospect to build colourful, customizable website featuring your own rich
content, calendar, files, clip art possible even with the absence of technical knowledge. The
help guide will aptly assist the teachers to do so. Not only that, SchoolRack will also enable the
user to manage students or parents in groups for access to extra collaborative features.
Teachers will be able to send mails in bulk to the members with ease as well as store them for
future reference.
The features in School Rack will also enable teachers to moderate private discussions online
with students and/or parents to address any concerns on the academic development. Teachers
can also assign tasks to student accounts, collect them in teachers personal account with ease.
In additional to that, the grading can be reported back once the teachers are done checking the
tasks. SchoolRack is also equipped with safety feature of password protected website to make
sure that the sharing of educational materials as well as discussions are made privy only to the
members of the designated individual accounts.
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d. Teacher-Friendly
SchoolRack is also easy to navigate. The teachers will be able to post, collect and grade
assignments for each groups through their account. To update their students on recent
progress, teachers can send out occasional email newsletter to subscribers in their
Mailing Lists. They can also communicate privately with students, parents or teachers
in My Messages.
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4. A) Sign up as a teacher
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HOW TO LOG IN
1. Visit the SchoolRack homepage and type in your username (or email address) and
password in the fields at the top of the page. Click Login once you have done so, and
you will be taken directly to your account Dashboard.
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Once you have logged in, enter the pages & posts section of your account
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6. In order to attach files to a post on your website, click the INSERT IMAGE, FILE OR
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3. To edit an existing calendar entry, simply click on the date or text in your calendar for a
textbox to appear for you to directly edit your text. To delete an existing calendar entry,
simply move your mouse over a date and click the DELETE link that appear
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2. This will appear. To upload a file, fill in the file title, description and choose your file to
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2. Fill in the short form to specify which type of group you'd like to create and click the
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4. After handing out the code to students or parents, watch the number of members in your
group increase in real time as students or parents subscribe to your group in their
personal SchoolRack accounts
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8. Once you've signed up, enter the group password given by your teacher on your
homepage and click 'Join Group
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11. To move members between groups, click the name of the group youd like to delete
members from
12. After clicking the group name, you will be taken to a page to manage all of its members.
Here you can allocate members to either groups by clicking the checkboxes by their
name and selecting the group name from the move selected to dropdown menu.
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Assignments
1. In order to create an assignment, click the Assignment section of your account and then,
click create new assignment
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2. This will appear. Next, click on create one to create the discussion topic.
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3. Select the group members you'd like to send the message to.
4. Fill in the subject and message body and then click send message
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2. Filling out the form on the mailing list page and clicking create mailing list
NOTE: You can add email addresses to your list manually whenever you'd like, but once your
mailing list is created, visitors to your website will also be able to subscribe to your mailing list
on their own. This way you dont have to input all email addresses by yourself, you can have
your visitors do it for you!
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CHAPTER
11
EDUBLOGS
INTRODUCTION TO EDUBLOGS
With the extensive number of educational blogs mushrooming all over the net nowadays,
Edublogs stands out with its combination of easy setup and use, strong support and services,
flexible administrative options as well as circumvention of spam and amelioration of privacy
security. Edublogs comes in really handy in keeping the students in the class on the same
page as the teachers will be able to track their progress easily. Even if one is a stranger to the
manoeuvring on the net, he or she will be able to create a blog easily. The teacher would only
require a catchy name for the blogging space and URL as well as customary information of the
administrator and the blog will be available, up and running within minutes of setup. The only
confusion one might be experiencing is perhaps to choose a theme from hundreds of
appealing choices.
Edublogs, built on Wordpress platform allows the users to utilizes the flexible features for
blogging which can highly motivate students to start writing. Not only you can set up individual
accounts for students, you will also be able to establish a network within the users. Teachers
can use Edublogs to positively contribute to a classroom newsletter. The space can also be
utilized to establish connection with the parents and administrators for the supervision of
educational purposes.
Edublogs lets you easily create and manage students and teacher blogs in which you can
easily customize designs and include videos, photos and podcasts. In addition to that,
teachers can also post PowerPoint presentations and handouts for the lessons.
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Engagement
As Edublogs adapts the functionality of blog features, the students will be highly motivated to
be creative and inventive in the writing styles due to the prospect of potential audience.
Teachers can post links to interactive educational games for the students to access and this
can highly enhance their educational experience as opposed to mere use of worksheets and
textbooks. The integration of technology such as videos can also helps students to learn and
understand how things happen. Students will have access to the site both at school and home.
Apart from that, parents can get involved in the educational process and allow them to be the
childrens partners in education.
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Pedagogy
The features in the blogs could be tailored by the teachers themselves. The teachers will be
able to decide on provoking topic to be assigned to the students. This can be done as part of a
daily writing and publishing routine in which the details could always be altered in accordance
to the students educational needs.
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Support
Even if the users have no conventional knowledge, setting up accounts on Edublogs would be
a breeze as it comes with quick support services. The support forums also offers myriad of
useful tips for teachers and students for a better experience at Edublogs.
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Privacy
The teachers can set a password and made the content of the blog privy only to the class
members. Since a number of students do feel more comfortable to write with anonymity, this
feature can help them to feel secure on the net.
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6. Once you have successfully signed up, this will appear. This page shows you your login
details. Click Login.
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Note : The first time you signed up, you will be directed to your blog domain immediately after
you click log in. But the next time you want to login, you either have to typed your URL or just go
to the home page of edublogs and click log in where you are required to fill in your details. Only
then you will be directed to your blog login page.
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located you can either edit the posts or delete posts.
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Note: Bulk edit lets you configure features such as post status, assign existing categories, add
new tags, enable/disable comments, change post author to multiple posts at the same time
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10. This will appear and once youve made the changes you just click Update
11. To remove the post published, click Trash and the folder will be removed. All items in
your trash folder can be restored or permanently deleted within 30 days of the time you
trashed them. Move your mouse cursor to the post title and trash icon will appear below
the title.
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8. By clicking the action link Quick Edit allows you to make quick changes without having
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time. This is as simple as:
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Note: Bulk edit lets you configure features such as publish status, page author, page
template and enable/disable comments on multiple posts at the same time
12. To remove the page, click on the trash button. All items in your trash folder can be
restored or permanently deleted within 30 days of the time you trashed them.
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First, select the page you want to trash.
Second, select Move to Trash from bulk action drop down menu.
Third, click Apply Button.
14. In order to restore your removed post, click on the Trash link at the top of the Page
Screen to go to your Trash posts page
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Add widget to your site.
1. Go to appearance and click widgets
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4. To edit comment, click on quick edit and then start editing your comment aspect. Then,
click update comment when you have done.
Click edit to
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Some plugins have an administration page where you can set options specific for
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References
1. http://www.twiducate.com
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41zMjk0hFU8
3. http://edtechreview.in/reviews/234-twiducate-social-network-for-schools
4. http://www.schoolrack.com/
5. http://schoolrackwiki.pbworks.com/w/page/15034087/FrontPage
6. https://edublogs.org/
7. http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZXRFoRr9Q
9. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edublogs+tutorial
10. https://littlebirdtales.com/
11. http://thoughts.com/
12. http://thoughts.com/public/tour
13. http://dweeber.com/
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg
15. http://dweeber.com/
16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gx-SsPM-Jg
17. http://www.sketchlot.com/
18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDGXqfDFd0
19. www.cosketch.com
20. http://www.collaborizeclassroom.com/
21. http://www.glogster.com/
22. http://www.glogster.com/
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